HC Deb 18 April 1956 vol 551 c89W
Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the number of established civil servants of the executive and administrative classes below and above the age of 60 years, respectively, now retired and receiving pensions.

Mr. H. Macmillan

It would not be possible to get out the precise numbers without a disproportionate expenditure of time and labour, but, with minor exceptions, the only civil servants who draw pension before reaching the age of 60 are those retired on grounds of ill-health.